During the 19th and 20th century the American and English whale hunting fleets explored the sperm whale hunting in the Azores. Many Azoreans where recruited to the crews of the factory boats.
Some Azorean companies started to appear.
The whales where spotted by lookouts on land and the wailers where called by a rocket noise. The Azorean canoes where sent to sea and the position of the sperm whale signaled with flags and smoke by the lookout.
The sperm whales killed, where transported to land where they where proceeded in the factories.
Pico and Faial island where the most important islands where whale hunting occurred, mainly because the cetacean’s approach close to the land, due to the great depths of the ocean near shore. In the mid 1980´s, whale hunting was forbidden in Azores and almost all over the world. A new activity takes place. Whale and Dolphin Watching.
Now some of the old wailers help the new activity with their knowledge in the lookouts and the factories where converted in museums maintaining the culture alive
Some Azorean companies started to appear.
The whales where spotted by lookouts on land and the wailers where called by a rocket noise. The Azorean canoes where sent to sea and the position of the sperm whale signaled with flags and smoke by the lookout.
The sperm whales killed, where transported to land where they where proceeded in the factories.
Pico and Faial island where the most important islands where whale hunting occurred, mainly because the cetacean’s approach close to the land, due to the great depths of the ocean near shore. In the mid 1980´s, whale hunting was forbidden in Azores and almost all over the world. A new activity takes place. Whale and Dolphin Watching.
Now some of the old wailers help the new activity with their knowledge in the lookouts and the factories where converted in museums maintaining the culture alive
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